Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

my husband introduced me to four of his Polish mates. Not a single one has blonde hair and blue eyes. They had kinda darker hair? Definitely not blonde. One of them had mousy coloured hair but that's like a dirty blonde/ash brown mix. I didn't notice their eye colour. .. If their eyes had been blue it was definitely not the sort of clear striking blue eyes you often see in many British people. I had a Polish classmate when I was studying Spanish in Uni and she was blonde hair blue eyed. So that means 1 out of 5 Polish people I've met was blonde hair blue eyed.

I know a Swedish friend and he has blonde hair blue eyes that's for sure. And no tan!
My friend's got a Finnish boyfriend and he's got blonde hair blue eyes.
I think you will find higher percentage of blonde hair blue eyed people in northern Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway perhaps?

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

@ Moon : They are pretty eyes. only other people I've met with eyes like this are in some Brits and Germans. My husband has the same sort of eyes and his ancestry a bit mixed (dutch, german, italian). He was born with very light blonde hair and had it as a baby, but by the time he was 5 his hair had darkened to a sort of mousy colour (like a mix of medium brown and light blondish hair). now he's got quite dark mousy brown hair (still looks like a mixed colour, not pure...) I saw it in his baby and kid photos.

My youngest daughter got his chameleon eyes, but they are more bluish and the yellow ring in the centre is not as striking. My other daughter has brown eyes like me, but her eyes are lighter brown.

Maybe gene theories can explain how eye colours are passed down from generations!

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

Hahaha :D

I've been in England for more than 5 years... Have to say that a lot of the homeless people I saw on the streets are British. Many are drug addicts. I've seen like gypsy-looking foreign women carrying their babies/kids on the Tubes begging for money, but can't say they're Polish or Eastern European or gypsies or whatever - I just couldn't tell where they were from. I've seen these types of beggars when in Italy... so maybe these types are just everywhere.

On the contrary, most of the Polish people I've met in England actually have proper jobs.